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Roy has a good posting and essay on misjudging development approaches. My thanks to Roy for the posting and "divulging the soul" on the matter. Chalk it up on experience and we all have gone through that before. I wouldn't blame Roy's approach on his 'directory services' project and I personally, do not view it as a technical (WMI, AD, etc) issue but one of LEADERSHIP. Ultimately, it's the tech lead's responsibility to seeing the project done. But tech leads can go astray. In this case, the development was done "behind the back" and that was certainly not the right way and that approach in itself, demoralizes the entire development team. I'd say that's poor leadership on the tech lead's part.

Found this quick reference card on regular expressions (for client javascript) from Visibone. Some good useful information.

Craig Mullins has a provocative article entitled 'The Death of Denormalization'. His argument lies in the fact that RDBMS technology now has better internal performance features, query optimizations, use of MQTs and ASTs, etc. These make the process of (de)normalization of databases almost redundant. While he may have some credence in his argument, I am skeptical - it pushes the design process too close to the system implementation. I have yet to utilize his new view for systems development but will certainly keep it in mind.

Our own, Carl Franklin will give a presentation - What's new in Whidbey? - January 27, 2004. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm at the MS Farmington CT office. More details here...

Following up from my prior posting about the WSS & SBS2K3 Installation update - just found out that MS is offering 5 free Client Access Licenses for Windows Small Business Server 2003 customers. Some details here...